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Can you give an example of a contractor's political stance becoming a problem for a city government? It's hard to imagine the guy installing tiles in the city
by skohan 5y ago
Can you give an example of a contractor's political stance becoming a problem for a city government? It's hard to imagine the guy installing tiles in the city hall's bathroom's views being known at all let alone becoming relevant.
- q1w2 5y agoIn this social media mania age - any city employee or contractor that says racist things online or in public is a major liability. If he says "I hate Jews so therefore I won't do business with Israel.", then yeah - that's a big problem for the city.
- skohan 5y agoI think that's a pretty blatant mischaracterization of this situation. My understanding is that these laws are put in place very specifically to combat the BDS movement, which works very hard to distance itself from even a whiff of antisemitism to avoid exactly the optics you're describing.
- q1w2 5y agoThe laws do not mention BDS at all, and they apply to any boycott. You can argue that the current popular boycott is against Israel, but the US has had multiple waves of boycotts. This law allows the US to move as one. ...to act as one. Which affords very significant leverage to our government in order to enact change - whether that's against China, Israel, Russia, South Africa, etc...